| 单词 | to get head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (a) head (a) to get (a) head: to gain force, momentum, power, or ascendancy; to become established. Cf. sense 56. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] forthwaxa900 wax971 growOE risec1175 anhigh1340 upwax1340 creasec1380 increasec1380 accreasea1382 augmenta1400 greata1400 mountc1400 morec1425 upgrowc1430 to run up1447 swell?c1450 add1533 accresce1535 gross1548 to get (a) head1577 amount1583 bolla1586 accrue1586 improve1638 aggrandize1647 accumulate1757 raise1761 heighten1803 replenish1814 to turn up1974 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1861/1 It will bee too soone perceyued though happily too late to stoppe the breache, when the floud hath gote head, and once wonne passage through the banke. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 263 The times were such, as wherein sin had gotten head. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §84. 341 Whereas..Haman..got some head, the Lord had warre with him. a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 429 He..fears..least Profaneness should break in like a flood, least Popery should get head, and God should go from a people. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 228 A great Fire..gets a Head. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 92 Hydrophobia..will occur and get head even in the coldest weather. 1867 Rep. Sel. Comm. Fire Protection (House of Commons) 222/1 The candle was placed on a piece of tallow..and it fell over; the fire was discovered before it got head. 1919 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 533/2 The fever went on, got head; and often proved mortal. < as lemmas |
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